Lower bandwidth means lower video quality. This is just a scam by a company scrambling to keep its business afloat while congress sells them out to cable companies and telcos (congress is trying to block net neutrality, so cable/telco can squeeze out competitors and keep consumer video business for themselves).

If you want real Bluray level HD quality you need to send a lot of bits. Period.
Put your bluray player into diag mode some time and see what it says. Typically 24 frames/sec movies are encoded at 1080P using avc or vc1 at average rate of 25Mbps, with peaks to 40Mbps. Thats what it takes to get even marginally good image fidelity.

Directors have recently announced that they will be shooting some movies at 48average frames/sec to improve temporal resolution. That will push up bandwidth demand (and need for 100Gbyte discs?).

They are already showing 4k (3840×2160 and beyond) projectors and flat panel displays at CES. And Japan’s NHK has built a prototype 8k system. Since new movies are being shot in 4k, it is reasonable to assume that will become available for home use at some point.

All of these trends point toward the need for MORE, not less, bandwidth for each video stream. Netflix, Google Youtube and other providers should be POUNDING on congress for net neutrality, and pressure infrastructure providers to augment and expand the nation’s IP network infrastructure. We consumer citizens should also pound on congress! The nation needs more capacity built; NOT bandwidth caps and rate shaping trickery.

Telecom companies should either build real capacity, or get out of the way and let municipalities and other entities build the data highways that this country needs to stay relevant and competitive in the second decade of the 21Sst century.

Does it remove every other frame?